Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-12
THe COLDER CITY.
A Long search fer Precious VI t Final.
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a Long search fer Precious Metal Final.
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London News: Between the Crinoco
and the Amszun. on the northeast coast
oil, South America. the Essequebo rolls
its warm tide TO the sea. Two hundred
and seventy years have passed since
Captain Keymis sailed into. its mouth
seeking for the tabled Manoe-the
Golden CITY. ALI hat time the dream
has been dead, or remembered only by
those who fingered once In o while over
a page of history to pity the delusion of
Sir Walter RAlelgh, and the sad fate of
his lieutenant. Since then settlements
have risen there upon the river banks,
and have decayed; the Dutch have
founded a new Holland among the sea
swRmps, and have lost it; wealth has
ii owed upon the shores, and ebbed
with the fortunes of the sugar
cane; and the last chapter has seemed
to be written OF the prosperity OF Brit
ish Guiana; when again upon the air
has beer the whisper OF tgold!' and up
the river from the ends of the earth have
come streaming all sorts and conditions
of men-sdventurers with hearts as ca
ger and hands az strong as were those OF
the voyageurs OF Elizabeth. RaleiRh's
promise OF riches has come true after all
and for the two poor wedges he carried
home to King james as testimony, hum
dred weights OF the yellow metal are be-
ing brought down from the. interior to-
day. When the boundary line with
Venezuela ia settled, and lite end pro-
perty made secures, a new era may dawn
upon Guiana. On the ancient jungle
trail OF Arawok and Warau. where tapir
and jsguar steal to-day between the
trunks of purple heart and locust tree,
may be heard the s%nortings OF the iron
horse, and from savannah and man.
! there rose from the Australian bush,
the lopg-dreamed OF Golden City.
Since the days of the buccaneers ami
many essay to explore the interior. and
| Wa%tertown, SeomburRh, Brown and
Humboldt. Here, teo, upon a smaller
scale, has been repeated by the British
Rodney and the French De Case the
thunder OF European war, Even q gold
to gather the precious metals. But pc.
litical uncertainty killed prospecting
enterprise. The sound wen OF Rodney's
guns never penetrated far from the coast
and thus, though they used to be harass-
ed sometimes by the slave drivers of
Brazil, the Trauma Indians about the
Upper Essequeho, and the Arecunas
about the springs oil its tributaries and
among the mountains beyond, have for
long roamed their native forests and
| savapnaha updiaSnrhed.
Nov, however, the white man has
made hie way once more into the depths
of these primeval wilde, and pick and
spade have brought to light the gold
that;sword and lance could not discover.
Though not in the titles and pavements
of the tabled Manos-for the Golden
City OF imagination has ehrunk to the
reality OF q poor Indian village by a
reedy Iake-tbe precious metal has been
found in abundance in the basin OF the
Ouyuni and Yurusri rivers, tributaries
OF the Essequebo, and already o new
town, Bartica. has been founded on the
Mazaruni, while in the far interior, be
side the palm-roof village of the Indiar
tribe, appear the white tents of the Eu
ropean.